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Speed!

(US and APO addresses only.) Because shipping costs are in excess of $25/game to ship overseas, we no longer ship internationally.

Speed! makes skip-counting loads of fun, and mastery of skip-counting makes multiplication easy. Two players compete against each other to
be the first to get rid of their cards, but they must watch-out...... if the number in the middle is the same they must be the first to shout Speed!, otherwise they will get all the played cards added to their stack.

Playing the Game

Check out this video showing a round of Three Speed in action.

The game comes with eight decks of cards, 2's through 9's. Each deck is played the same way, only the numbers change. For example, the Three-Speed deck contains the numbers 3 through 30 in multiples of 3's and the Eight-Speed deck contains the numbers 8 through 80 in multiples of 8's.

How it Works: Skip-Counting to Multiplication

When kids play Speed! they not only
learn to skip-count, but gain valuable number sense skills that help in learning multiplication, division, factoring, reducing fractions and the many math skills which build on skip-counting. The
best way to help a child gain this type of number sense is to play
consistently with one deck of cards. When a child can easily beat an
adult that child is ready for the next deck.

The
repetition of playing with one deck of cards until the child is
extremely familiar with the deck helps them to make associations
between numbers. In learning more advanced mathematical concepts
such as reducing fractions, they will instinctively recognize related numbers. For example, given the fraction 15/21, they will understand that
the numbers 15 and 21, are related by the number 3 because they were
both in the Three-Speed deck of cards. The 15 was the 5th card and the 21 was the 7th card, therefore the fraction 15/21 can be reduced to 5/7.

This video explains how it works.

How Families Use the Game

Parents, tutors, teachers, homeschooling families, and kids love Speed! because it's fun to play. Since the rounds of Speed! are fast paced and last less than five minutes, educators often use this game as a reward at the end of a lesson. Others use it as their primary method for teaching multiplication, using it in place of a math curriculum. Since two people can play with one deck
of cards, up to 16 kids can be busy memorizing their multiplication
tables with
one box of Speed! making Speed! a great option for co-ops and schools. In addition, the quantity of decks enables Speed! to be used for "Final-Four" style tournaments.

Purchasing

Speed! can be purchased directly
from me by clicking on the Buy Now button above, or on Amazon.com by
clicking on the icon below. Speed! is also available as an iPad app or an iPhone app.

* I am a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com and Highhill Educational Supplies is my company.

13 comments:

Yeah! We will be purchasing this game today it looks wonderful in a few weeks I'm posting all the things I'm doing to get my kiddos up to "speed" (pun intended) on their math facts! Is it okay if I use your video as long as I point them back to your website. I'm super excited about your game. YEAH for creative homeschool Mama's!Kyle

This looks like a great game! Thanks for linking it up! I haven't seen it at the stores here in the US, but I'll be on the look out for it! I would love to get the cards. I'm always looking for some more fun ways to teach skip counting!KimMrs. H's Resource Room

About Me

I am an American mother of three who spent six years living in Germany. Education has always been a primary focus for me. This blog is packed with fun educational activities for kids. Speed! is a skip-counting game I created in 2011 to help kids learn multiplication. In June 2012 my younger daughter was diagnosed with Leukemia, so that topic has quickly taken over a portion of this blog. You can reach me at
jmommymom @ gmail . com